Resilient tire for vehicle-wheels.



A; A.. QUERY. RESIIJENT TIRE POR VEHICLE WHEEIES. APPLICATION EILEDJUNE 13, 1911.

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A. GURRY. RBSILIBN E PoR VEHICLE WHEELS.

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RESILIENT TIRE FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 13, 1911. Serial No. 632,832.

To all whom it may concern i' Be it known that I, ALEREp A. CURRY,

l citizen of the United States, and resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Resilient y Tires for Vehicle-VVheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to vehicle wheels,

such for instance as are designed to be used on trucks, motor cars and the like, and

, refers particularly to a cushion or resilient tiretherefor thatis adapted to serve the p urpose, and take the place of pneumatic tires.

The object of the invention is to provide a tire of the above class which is durable, simple and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and will not be susceptible to the tire troubles common to the present forms of' pneumatic tires; further to so arrange ,y and construct the device as to form. a tire which will yield and thus compensate for the unevennesses in the roadway and thereby form an easy riding wheel, and-finally to particularly improve `upon that style and character of tire shown and described in my former United States Patent No. 996,838 dated July 4, 191'1.

With these and other objects in view the invention lconsists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion,A sizeand minor details of construction within the scope of theclaims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit .or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention..

Similar characters of leference y denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the accompanying drawings"forming a part-of this specification, and upon which,

-Figure l, shows a sectional side elevation of my improved form of tire as applied to a suit-able form of vehicle wheel. Fig. 2, lis a transverse cross section through the tire 4and rim portion vof the metal chain of springs, constituting the internal yieldable structure of the tire. Fig. 5, is a detached plan view of a portion of said endless` sectional spring, and, Fig. 6, is a detached plan View of one of the connecting links of said endless sectionalssheet metal spring.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings 8 represents a wheel which n" y be ofthe usual construction includinga lib 9 and felly 10. A rim 11 issecured to the outside of this felly in any suitable manner and isprovided with an annular iiange 12 upon each side, having notches 13 in their peripheries to be engaged by dogs 14 and 15 pivote'd to the side plates 16 of the tire. These side plates are in the form of rings and have ,their inner side portions fitted and operating against the Hanged sides12 of the rim 11 before mentioned, while the outer. edge por- ,tions of the said rings are secured by means of a bolt 19 to a channel rim 17 and an outer tire 18 for the purpose of rigidly securingl the four parts together to form an integral tread and sides of the tire. These parts are thus normally movably connected to the rim of the wheel and are supported in their normal distended position through the medium of my novel construction of ferred to.Y

There are a series of dogs pivotally connected to each of the side plates 1G for the engagement of the notches 13 in the adjoining flanges of the rim, the series 14 of said dogs being disposed in one direction, while the other series l5 on the other side plate, are disposed in the opposite direction. thus serving to engage the tire with the upper portion of the wheel, when moving in either a forward or backward direction. These dogs drop` lint-o engagement with the notches while at t-lie top of the wheel but naturally fall out of engagement as the wheel moves around and the dogs are carried under. This forms a positive engagement intermediate of the wheel and tire throughout a portion of the wheel, and thus leaves the rest of the wheel free to yield, come and go according to the load carried by the wheel and the condition of the road bed. A suitable' bushing 27 formed of fiber or other suitable material isset into the back of each of the dogs 14 and 15 andserves to contact with the rim 17 when the dogs fall out of Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

yielding device later to be re- 

